The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

Arizona the Apaches travelled fifteen
miles on tiptoe to hide their trail.
"A line of steamers is about to be-
established on the Suwanee river, the
Florida stream so famed in song.
"A Brooklyn woman stole q waist
from fancy goods store. and the next
day took it back to exchange for one.
that would fit her. She was handed
over to the police.
THAT tree yonder has been stand
ing over two hundred years." said the
guide. pointing at one of the kings of
the forest. II should think it would
be awful tired" replied Boston girl
Puck
You want a keepsake that will
always remind you of me?'' she said
Il do, darling" he said tenderly--
whats the matter with MYSELF" She
whispered. There viii be a wedding
shortly.-Boston Courier.
But for the house fly, says Prof
Proctor, epidemics would carry off a.
million people per year. Think of this.
gentle reader, when you feel like anathe--
matizing the winged household pet.
that sticks to you so affectiOnately!
In constructing locomotive for the
Ratofogasta railroad of Chill, the Bald
win Locomotive Works has placed the
frames outside the driving wheels and
so gained firebox width of thirty-two-
inches in thirty-inch gauge.
Yes" said the High Street woman
to her neighbor, ''we have had depress--
ing times in our family. Johnny was,
taken with ulsteration of the diagram,
then information set in and went to his
brain. 1t nearly killed him, but he man
aged to pull through"
Guest Cat summer hoteD-''Who
is that distinguished looking young
man wiping dishe5?" Proprietor
That is Mr.. Emerson Tracy Bancroft,
who delivered the magnificent oration
on The Ideality of Life at Yalemouth
commencement" - Burlington Free
Press.
Philip Hensen, of Corinth, Miss, is-
very proud of his big gray beard, which
he thinks is the longest in the world
Hensen is sixty years old, six feet, two
inches tall. and, when he stands erect,
his beard touches the ground. 1t has
not been cut for eleven years, and is
still growing.
Miss Mabel G. Rouse. West Han
over lady over seventy years old, sat
down the other evening, and, without
the aid of dictionary. astoniShed the
Dwelley family, with whom she is living,
by making 500 different English words;
out of the letters in the word Charles
town."
Ray Mitchell. seven-year-old boy
of Reno, Cal, recently stole S23.75.
from hotel till, and was sneaking out
the back way when the hotel-keeper-
started in pursuit. The boy ran, but
finding that his pursuer was gaining on
him he threw the odd change on the
street, and thus, delaying the pursuit.
Ray escaped with therest of his plunder-
-Clarisa Padget, a negress living
near Johnston, S. c., became so fat thai
she choked to death. She was short in
stature and weighed 400 pounds. Her
coffin measured thirty-six inches in
width by forty inches in depth, and the
! side of the house had to be torn away
in order to get it out of the house. She
was mother to fifteen children.
The real estate fever in Southern
California is no respecter of persons
1t attacks physicians as virulently as
other mortals. A few days since, ac-
cording to the Press, Riverside physi--
clan wrote prescription. and under
the head of directions" said: Take
one-third down, and the remainder in
one and two years, secured by mort
gage"
The Pennsylvania railroad has
made a successful test of crude petro--
leum as fuel for locomotives. A trip.
from Altoona to Pittsburgh, 116 miles,
was made with the use of about a.
dozen barrels carried in a tank in the
tender. The cost was much less than
that of coal, and there was great
saving in labor and weight carried
Boston Transcript
The man who wears glasses cam
sympathize with the wearer of a newly
polished pair of boots. The former
can not pass the vender of cheap lenses
without being assailed with the refrain
GLASSES? spectacles?" and it is also p.
well-known, though unexplainsble fact.
that the bootblack can never see pair
of shiny boots without crying OUT
Have q shine?"
Prof. Harvey w. Wiley has beep
long in the employ of the Agricultural
Department at Washington, endeayor-
ing to master the whole subject of
sugar from sorghum. He concludes
that the formation of sucrose by the,
plant is only an accidental or adventi--
tious process. and only occurs from
waste material. He concludes from
this fact that sugar from sorghum will
never be an industry that any one cam
long engage in. as the results will be-
more or less accidental. Sometimes
plants may yield good percentage of
sugar, at other times none at all
Boston Budget.
The Epoch has the following from
a woman who is reputed winner at
the races: II choose the horse whose
number in the entries corresponds with
the day of the month; or. if | can't do
that, / select combination Of two.
horses whose numbers when placed to-
gether represent the date of the event,
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